740-142 Western Music to 1750

Faculty musicianship test or 740-139 Introduction to Music 1-2. For international students a score of 6.5 on IELTS or a pass in AESL1.

Topics covered include an overview of musical works and ideas in the West up to 1750 and an introduction to the music cultures beyond; and critical and research methods basic to the scholarly study of music. Representative works of the major periods are introduced in their social contexts.

Regular listening tests (20%); written projects to a total of 2000 words (20%);end-of-semester 3-hour examination (60%).

• C V Palisca (ed), Norton Anthology of Western Music: Vol. I Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque. 2nd ed., Norton, 1988.
• B R Hanning, Concise History of Western Music. Norton, 1998.